VBA to Read PDF??

I'm probably going out on a limb regarding VBA but, is there a way I can code Excel to link up to a large PDF? For one particular update that is done here, the user has around 50 different rows by 10 columns to update. His process is to:
Copy identifier from Excel worksheet
Paste it into the "Find" bar in the PDF
Look for the identifier on the page that comes up
Copy data
Paste into worksheet.
He wants me to work on automating this procedure. Is it possible? Is there another programming language should be thinking of using? I was talking to a programmer in the company I work for and he suggested VB.NET. Is this something that can be done with VBA though? If not then I guess I'll try the .NET way but if any of you that answer this know of a different way I would appreciate your inputs.

I was wondering if there's any way to read pdf files from excel. I have numbers inside tables in some files
with pdf format, and I would like to copy them to excel? Is this possible? web query? macro? Tks

I am trying to program a loop in Excel VBA to read the first two characters of a cell in column A and,
depending on the characters returned, to print something else in column B, then move to the next row up. What I have so far
below is pieced together from little insights from over the web, but currently it does nothing. Not even error messages. It
has more fields (if "XX" > print blah blah) but they are all the same, so only the first two iterations are
shown here for clarity.

I searched the forums for this but couldn't find anything appropriate.

I have a project where
the final Excel spreadsheet will be stored online for users to download. Occasionally the file will be updated with a new
version but I want to make sure that users who have downloaded an older version are alerted if there is a more up-to-date
file available.

I want to write a piece of VBA that will check the name of the current file and compare it to the
name of the file available for download. Ultimately I want to be prompt the user to download the newer version if/when
appropriate.

Does anyone know of an elegant way of achieving this? Essentially, I just need the VBA to read the
filename in the specified online directory. If that's not possible, I thought I might have to upload a hidden 'version
control' txt file to the directory with a standard name, which VBA can download and open and read the most up-to-date
filename from.

For example: Row 1 to Row 56 belongs to Company A. And
Row 57 to Row XX belongs to Company B and so on until 100 companies. For each company it has different range of data and we
could not determine the number of the companies and the name as well. How could we use VBA to read and distinguish the name
of the company in order to perform calculation for each company?

Hi All
I am currently trying to make an Excel VBA which will extract a table from a PDF File. I got to the point where, if I
manually cut and paste the table into a .txt file I can extract it and remake the table.
However I want to be able to access pdf directly from the VBA function. When ever I try this, the words and numbers come out
as random characters. I am guessing it is probably compatibility or that I need to access the pdf through another reader.
either way any help would be great, my code I have right now is pasted below for opening the file and separating each word in
the file into separate cells.

I have an excel
document with VBA userforms used to populate it. In the most basic manner, this is a stockbook also containing sale
information.

I am looking to be able to create PDF invoices (or at least .docx invoices which can then be convered
to PDF) using the information in the excel document. Each sale for these invoices has a unique key (sale ID for example), and
if at all possible I would like to use a VBA userform to insert this key, to then create the relevant invoice.

I
am not necessarily looking for a full working example of this, but just what the best way for me to achieve this would be.

I am leveraging WMI via VBA in Excel 2010 to read the registry and write it to a cell. The code works on similar items but I
am having issues reading a WSUS value. The code works in a stand alone vb script but not in excel. Code:

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The string "fullName" is determined when somebody clicks the "run" button by calling ActiveWorkbook.Path and
ActiveWorkbook.Name. The sheet being read is "volumes", which is dynamically created during the execution of the code.

Here is the problem I have encountered:

My end users often have multiple instances of Excel running. If
they open this workbook in the original (primary) instance of Excel, there is no problem; however, if they open it in a
secondary instance, the code bombs at the "Call xl.Open" line. The code opens a new copy of the workbook in the primary
instance of Excel, and this copy doesn't have the "volumes" sheet in it, so the program crashes.

The problem is
solved if they always remember to open my workbook by double-clicking on the file icon outside of Excel, rather than going
through the Excel File menu; it then always opens in the primary instance.

However, I would prefer that they be
able to open the workbook any way they choose, and in any Excel instance they choose.

One solution, which is my
least preferred, is to abandon the use of ADO, and read the data into arrays.

The preferred solution, if it
exists, is to find a way to specify the active workbook in the connection string. The code snippet I posted above is
generally referenced as a way to read data from a closed workbook; is there a different, preferred way to read from the
active workbook, so that Excel doesn't attempt to open a new copy?

Failing that, is there a way within VBA to
determine if the Excel instance executing the code is the primary instance? I could use this code in Workbook_Open() to
determine if it was the right instance of Excel, and if not, inform the user to open the file by double-clicking on it, and
then close.

I am pretty new to VBA and currently writing a macro in excel to read lines in a text file if some
condition is met. I managed to write a code of read the text file line-by-line but it is not efficient enough as I am just
interested in

I want to use the running VBA sub routine -
(Copy_VBA) – to make and copy all (30) modules in workbook 2 into workbook 3.

I can read each module name and each
sub routine within each module, (including the line numbers where each sub routine starts within a module – also – all labels
with line numbers), but so far I have not been able to read / transfer the actual VBA code in the module. I have also not
been able to make a new module in a static workbook, (using the running sub routine - (Copy_VBA) - VBA code).

I have an excel 2007 application add-in (using C#.NET). In my application, I create and delete a conditional formatting rule
programmatically. The issue I am facing is when I try to delete the conditional formatting rule that I programmatically
created, I ran into the following errors:

1. Exception from HRESULT: 0x800A03EC
2. Attempted to read or write protected memory. this is often indication that other memory is corrupt.

I get
these errors only when I have user created conditional formatting rules prior to deleting – I don’t want to delete all
conditional formatting rules using FormatConditions.Delete(). Further, I can’t use FormatConditions[index].Delete() because
I don’t have a index reference for the one that was created from the application.

Note: I have checked the Trust
access to the VBA project object model.

I have been reading a number of the threads in the forum regarding printing to PDF file, but non of them
are in terms I can understand, (Bit too complex for me), I simply want to print one of my worksheets to a PDF file by
clicking a Command button on the sheet. I would like the PDF file name to be the text from one of the cells on the sheet say
B10 for example. Im using Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro for my PDF program.

Anyone who can help me to try and understand
this is will be regarded as an Excel Master in my eyes

Hello again!
I do a LOT of searches on here, and a lot of reading. I could have sworn that last week I found a thread on using VBA to open
several workbooks, print predesignated pages, and close the workbooks.
I have searched using a lot of combinations...I may be mistaken and read that somewhere else (Highly unlikely as I am
like...always here).
Anyone remember a thread like that? I have written a code, but thus far it is purely decorative and I would like to re read
the ideas.
Thanks

i read some place to ensure that
the reference is copied, one can use the following
[vbcode]
wks.Cells(i + 13, 7).FormulaR1C1 = wks.Cells(i, 3).FormulaR1C1
[/vbcode]
but cant get through the first step, where i actually use vba to make the first entry